I had a look at the roth website, and all the modules I examined (all both of them) appear to be available under the Artistic License or the GPL.

So the good news is that there's nothing stopping anyone from getting the code and fixing the makefile, and making the forked version of the module available to the world.

However, the bad news is that there's nothing anyone can do to force that change back onto the roth website (well, unless you're his mum, perhaps) and it takes time and effort to maintain a forked module (otherwise, some poor soul has exactly the same problem with the next bug they want fixed, but doubled).

Anyone tried asking nicely?

Failing that, does anyone know his mum?

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In reply to Re^3: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by wol
in thread Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by ramtek

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